On March 22nd 2024 I had to leave the comfort of my side of the road to attend a book presentation titled “On A Platter of Gold:” How President Jonathan won and lost the Presidency.
The event held at the prestigious Port Harcourt Club.

The event was also billed to showcase two other young authors from our locale as well as be a tool to enhance the raising of the culture of book reading amongst secondary school children.
Beyond that, it also was an avenue to unviel the Education Champions League being prepared as a ground for the younger secondary school generation to showcase their book reading and public speaking prowess.

Event was good with a lot of things to learn and some interesting historical views were shared.
I however didn’t see those I expected to be interested in this sort of fora = the academics and those who have continuously espoused the need for better education and including the arrow heads of *bring back our history.

I’ve always had the sense that as a people, we talk much more than we do. This was a good opportunity for ideas to be shared and perspectives learned and perhaps reviewed, but the hall was filled with *the usual suspects.

Perhaps because on my own side of the road we do more than we talk, I was expecting too much from others on the other side of the road.

Can we begin to support these type of causes by just being present at the events to show we mean what we say?

We are the guardians of the future today and our actions and inactions would be translated by the next generation in perspectives we will not be available to explain. Let us begin to do as we say.

I enjoyed all the speakers who were very clear in the messages they sent and I look forward to being invited again to another event like this.

I thank to Convener and the team for choosing a contemporary book that can best be called ” a political eye opening thriller”.- Kachi Omenuko